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PNS Daily Newscast - May 24, 2019

President Trump's reported to be ready to sign disaster relief bill without money for border security. Also on the Friday rundown: House bills would give millions a path to citizenship; and remembering California’s second-deadliest disaster.

According to Martin Van Der Werf, associate director of editorial and postsecondary policy at the center and co-author of the report, those findings hold true in New York, where 16 out of every 100 college-age youth are black, but only nine out of every 100 freshmen at the state's selective public colleges are black.

"For Latinos, 22 out of every 100 college-age young adults in New York are Latinos,” Van Der Werf said, “but only 16 out of every 100 selective public college freshmen are Latinos. "

He said selective college admissions rely heavily on SAT scores, but those scores aren't reliable indicators of college success.

"We give more resources to the wealthier districts,” he said. “The wealthier districts produce students who do better on the tests, those students go on to selective colleges and things just don't tend to change over time."

He said wealthier school districts tend to serve more white children. Van Der Werf said he believes selective public colleges need to take a more holistic approach to admissions.

"That they accept students from a broader cross-section of the public, because these universities ought to be serving the broad cross-section of all people in that state,” he said.

According to the report, 38 percent of white Americans have a bachelor's degree or higher, compared to 23 percent of black Americans and only 17 percent of Latinos.